I have this visceral response when some greens and blues come together. I wonder sometimes if the appeal is universal. Are we wired as humans to enjoy the colors in nature?
My goal is to investigate what beauty is & distinguish it from what it is not; acknowledge its power & elevate its status in human experience from pleasure to necessity; harness delight as a way to organize life and immerse myself in what I love.
I invite your comments and questions, let's hear 'em!
When scientists speak of beauty in these contexts they generally employ the word loosely, equivocally, and sometimes even in a contradictory way. One can hardly blame them; is there any subject more difficult to discuss with precision? -- ROBERT P. CREASE
Truthfully we cannot do without beauty; for without the desire for the beautiful, our lives would seemingly be quite uninteresting and uninspiring. Art would be dry and rigid, design overly utilitarian and what would happen to all of the supermodels? We should all have the moment in the street where we take time to evaluate what is truly beautiful to us and not what we have been told is beautiful. Let us open up beauty and try to find the potential within it.-- SEAN BURKHOLDER
This is the spirit that Beauty must ever induce, wonderment and a delicious trouble, longing and love and a trembling that is all delight. -- PLOTINUS
Keep in your homes all that you know to be useful and all that you believe to be beautiful. -- WILLIAM MORRIS
What we need is more awe. -- Dustin Kurtz
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. -- LEONARD COHEN
I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much. --MAGNETIC FIELDS
Beauty is human gold. --BYRON ADDISON
He is sustained in the misery of the present by the hope of a golden future.--ALBERT VON KELLER on the benefits of the artist's inclinations and interests
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. --VOLTAIRE
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. --GEORGE W. RUSSELL
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. --TERTULLIAN
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. --NINON DE L'ENCLOS
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. --LEO TOLSTOY
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. --CHRISTOPHER MORELY
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. --SIMONE WEIL
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. --KARL LAGERFELD
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --CONFUCIOUS
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. --FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. --MARIE STOPES
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. --PABLO PICASSO
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. --RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forthUpon the earth without a meet alloy. --GEORGE MACDONALD
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. --PHIL OCHS
1 comment:
Ahhh, yes the great question, comrade....give me more great fucking questions!
Answers? i have none....now, give me more fucking answers!!!!!
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